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Informationen zum Autor Dr Dorothée Baumann-Pauly is a business ethics scholar and human rights advocate. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Zürich. In her scholarly work she links the interdisciplinary academic discourse on global governance with the practical implementation challenges of corporations as political actors. She currently teaches at HEC Lausanne and works with the Center for Business and Human Rights at Stern School of Business, New York University. Klappentext This book develops tools for assessing corporate citizenship! looking at the role of the corporation as a private actor in global governance at conceptual and empirical levels. It uses a toolkit to develop approaches to corporate citizenship in practice! and includes an empirical assessment of five Swiss multinationals. Zusammenfassung This book develops tools for assessing corporate citizenship, looking at the role of the corporation as a private actor in global governance at conceptual and empirical levels. It uses a toolkit to develop approaches to corporate citizenship in practice, and includes an empirical assessment of five Swiss multinationals. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Global rules — private actors: The role of the MNC in global governance1.1. MNCs in global governance1.2. Research gaps1.3. Aim of the research1.4. Structure of the research 2. Mapping the theoretical foundations for defining the role of the MNC in a global economy2.1. Theoretical background and key concepts2.2. New theoretical developments in political science and business administration 3. Bridging theory and practice — Developing an assessment tool for corporate citizenship3.1. Developing an ideal of CC3.2. Putting CC into practice3.3. Results of expert interviews and analysis of best practices3.4. Learning to implement CC3.5. Developing the assessment tool 4. Assessing corporate citizenship — an empirical study of Swiss UNGC participants4.1. The methodological approach to the empirical study4.2. Case study results—implementation of CC according to three dimensions4.3. Summary of empirical results4.4. Limitations of the empirical research 5. Discussion of the empirical findings5.1. Practical implications5.2. Theoretical implications 6. Refining the assessment tool6.1. Introducing an issue-specific dimension to the assessment of CC6.2. Prioritizing issues and maintaining corporate legitimacy 7. Conclusions and further researchBibliographyAppendices ...
